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Week 11

Exam #2

Tools: Lithics

CEE

 

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 311-344
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

 

"Hobbit" from Indonesia.

"Hobbit"
from Indonesia
(National Geographic)
 
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Week 11 Day 21

Tuesday 17 November 2009



  

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  • Good Luck on the Exam!

 

PCforum

 

Topic 8 -- Exam II

Exam answer sheet.

For Topic 8, have a look at the Exam II information at <http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1602/pcexamsTR.html>

Text chapters covered in Exam 2.

The basic exam is multiple-choice, but an optional essay exam is available

sample optional essay exam questions

Click on the various items for details

 

Review: Recommendations on how to study slides

and

Review the materials

Useful Information:

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 8

PCforum image.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
 

PCforum

Topic 8 -- "Black As Barack?"

Exam answer sheet.

One of the featured items in the most recent Anthropology in the News is LiveScience article entitled, "Black As Barack? Why Race is Wrong - Part 1" by Dave Brody.

Chapter 4 of the text, and especially pp. 72-74, address essentially the same question.

Read Brody's article at <www.livescience.com/culture/081031-race-barack-pt1.html> and review the materials from the text.

Questions:

1.  In your opinion, what is the main way Brody's views relate to the materials in the text?

2. Do you agree or disagree with Brody's assessments?

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 9

REM: Set your Folder Selector for the current topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
 

Features of the Day

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Exam #2
 

Old Business

 

  
 
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 311-344
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
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Week 11 Day 22

Thursday 19 November 2009

nlt 4:26 time permitting, for fun:
"Hunt or be Hunted" from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
(49 min., 2003, DVD 94, Chs. 5-7)


 

Announcements

  • Good Luck on the Exam!
 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

Exam #2

 

Features of the Day

nlt 4:26 video
time permitting, for fun:

"Hunt or be Hunted" from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
 (49 min., 2003, DVD 94, Chs. 5-7)

Before WE Ruled the Earth video.

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

  1. the actual content of the various finds

  2. archaeological field methods and techniques

  3. laboratory methods and techniques

    • including reconstruction techniques, and . . .

  4. archaeological dating techniques

  5. theoretical / interpretative approaches

    • including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks

Methods and Techniques Slides
07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 

 
 

Old Business

  
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 311-344
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

 
 
 
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Exam answer sheet.

Exam #2

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CEE Week 11

Exam #2

Tools: Lithics

 

Monday 23 November 2009

Blades and Pressure Flaking
(21 min., 1968, VC 2841)

Alan Alda clip, "Hand Made Humans"
(15 min., 2000, CC, VC 4261)

nlt 07:30 Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min., 1999, VC 4324)

"Where did Homo sapiens come from?

How did they interpret their world?

And what did they think and feel?

Were they anything like us?"

 

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 311-344
Post: PCforum

Text Resources

 

Clovis point

 
 
 

Announcements

Good Luck on the Exam!

PCforum: Topic 10

BBC: Archaeology

Image from BBC: Archaeology.

 

The International Scout Report logo.

The prestigeous Scout Report
 has in the past featured the BBC: Archaeology site
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/>
23 November 2007 edition
(Volume 13, Number 45)

 

The Scout Report's critique of the BBC site:

"It's a fairly difficult endeavor to reconstruct an Iron Age roundhouse, what with all of the archaeology training required and such. Persons with such interests who lack the necessary training need worry no longer, as the BBC has created a rather fine site that lets users take in many facets of archaeology, including the aforementioned roundhouse. From their homepage, visitors can delve into the latest archaeology news or go straight away to the "Excavations and Techniques" section. Within this section, visitors will find more detailed subsections, including "Techniques", "Recording Finds", "Types of Archaeology" and "Reconstructions". The "Types" section includes overviews of various fields of archaeology, complete with first-hand commentaries and photographs. The "Techniques" area includes a feature titled "The Story of Carbon Dating" and a piece on the relationship between archaeology and metal detecting. The site is rounded out by the "Reconstructions" area, where visitors can view that roundhouse and also look into the reconstruction of an Iron Age chariot."

 

First visit the BBC: Archaeology site at http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/

Questions:
  What is your favorite part of the BBC site?
  Why?

Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology. Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Image from BBC: Archaeology.

Be sure to set your "Folder Selector"
in the main window
to the current topic
[use the “Reload/Main button" to get to the main window]

Set Folder Selector to Topic 10

REM: Set PCfolder to curent topic.

REM: If you have any questions, you can post them on the PCforum
or bring them up in class
 

Features of the Day

(to Old Business)

video:

Blades and Pressure Flaking
(21 min., 1968, VC 2841)

     

 

video:

Alan Alda clip, "Hand Made Humans"
(15 min., 2000, CC, VC 4261


      

Francois Bordes flintnapping.

Alan Alda
talks with anthrpologist
Mary Marzke


nlt 07:30 video:

Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror
(53 min, 1999, VC 4324)

Cave art from Grotte Chauvet, France.
Cave art from Grotte Chauvet, France.
Bear (left). Aurochs and rhinoceros (right).
Source: Understanding Physical Anthropology and Archaeology, 8th ed.
(Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2007), p. 293


nlt 7:36 video, time permitting, for fun:

"Hunt or be Hunted"
from Before We Ruled the Earth series -- Discovery Channel
 (49 min., 2003, DVD 94, Chs. 5-7)

Before WE Ruled the Earth video.

As you view the videos over the remainder of the semester pay attention to . . .

  1. the actual content of the various finds

  2. archaeological field methods and techniques

  3. laboratory methods and techniques

    • including reconstruction techniques, and . . .

  4. archaeological dating techniques

  5. theoretical / interpretative approaches

    • including logic of analysis

More information on methods is contained in the text and in the methods slides:

Weeks

Methods and Techniques Slides
07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 

 

Exam #2

(5:00 - 6:30)

 

Old Business

  • tba
  
 

Assignments

Read:
 Ch. 13, "Early Holocene Hunters and Gatherers," pp. 311-344
Post: PCforum
 

Notes

Weeks

Methods and Techniques Slides
07 - 08
  Some Important Concepts (slides 11B)
08
  Special Skills:
   
In the Field (slides 10A)
    In the Lab (slides 10B)
      In the Field and Lab (slides 10C)
12
 
Archaeological Dating Methods (slides 10D)
 
Other Methods of Analysis (slides 10E)

 
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